Thursday, May 24, 2007

As time elapsed swiftly 光阴荏苒 时光如梭

What can become eternal? Perhaps nothing. Who may keep young eternally? Absolutely nobody. The following series of photos may trigger our feelings and thinking on life and more.

A 171cm sweetheart on the big screen played in Anna Karinena, Grand Hotel and many other films. She was born in 1905 in Sweden and died in 1990 in New York, US.

I knew him from my favourite film, Out of Africa in which he co-starred with Meryl Streep. From certain perspectives, he looks like Brad Pitt. It was said that Robert Redford was one of the hottest Hollywood male actors in his times.

Gregory Peck is a productive actor. In his 87 years he acted a lot of roles. But we know him most from a romantic classic, Roman Holiday which co-starred Mr Peck and the lady below.

Audrey Hepburn, the heroine in Roman Holiday, is an angel in many people's mind. This is not only because she owns a fabulous facial look which makes one hard to resist her charms, but also because she devoted herself to charity in her later life.

The image in the left part of the above picture is Taylor's role in Cleopatra. She was born in 1932 and only 157cm high. But this didn't prevent her from being a super star in her ages. She shot about 70 films and TV plays in her active period. Her last work was produced in 2001.

Sophia Loren was born in 1934 and grew up in the slums of Rome, Italy. Frankly speaking, Sophia Loren herself is better recognised by people than her works. She was considered one of the major sex symbol of the sixties, competing with Marilyn Monroe, Brigitte Bardot and Jane Fonda.
If you know The Godfather, then you know the charming gentlemen. His trade mark is bizarrely unique voice with an extreme nasal tone spoken in mumbles. He died in 2004 at the age of 80.
I wish I would just see the left part of all pictures. What are you thinking of now? They were gorgeous in their youth, weren't they? They appeared somewhat disappointing in their senior age, didn't they? Time changed everything and everyone. The past super stars would fall some day and vanish in people's memory. What shall we attach more significance to, appearance, career, life, love or something else? Think it over before we get too old to think.